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Carol Vernallis, Holly Rogers, Selmin Kara, and Jonathan Leal (eds.), Cybermedia: Explorations in Science, Sound, and Vision (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), ISBN 978-1-50135-704-6 (hb).

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Carol Vernallis, Holly Rogers, Selmin Kara, and Jonathan Leal (eds.), Cybermedia: Explorations in Science, Sound, and Vision (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), ISBN 978-1-50135-704-6 (hb).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2024

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1 Key works of this historiography include: Hayles, N. Katherine, How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Wolfe, Cary, What Is Posthumanism? (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2009)Google Scholar; Braidotti, Rosi, The Posthuman (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013)Google Scholar.

2 One commentator designates ‘Nosedive’ as ‘the episode of Black Mirror that is most obviously about the present’. Sculos, Bryant W., ‘Screen Savior: How Black Mirror Reflects the Present More than the Future’, Class, Race and Corporate Power 5/1 (2017), 17, at 2CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 Brooker, Charlie, Jones, Annabel, with Arnopp, Jason, Inside Black Mirror (London: Ebury Press), 243Google Scholar.

4 Other media scholars have discussed ‘Nosedive’'s political–economic critique in relation to feminized labour. See Greer, Erin, ‘Wages for Face-Work: Black Mirror's “Nosedive” and Digital Reproductive Labor’, Camera Obscura 105 34/3 (2020), 89115Google Scholar.

5 For an antidote to these tendencies, see the wonderful Christian Grüny, ‘Listen! An Old Idea in a New Guise’, Cultural Critique (forthcoming).